Context Mapping

Kind: activity

Layer: Domain Modeling

Record: architecture:context-mapping

Severity: recommended

Scope: bounded contexts, integration

Canonical: Ontology

The activity of recording how bounded contexts relate, including which one is upstream and how their models translate.

Listed in Architecture principles, after Bounded Context and before Anti-Corruption Layer.

Requires

• Bounded Context
• Relationship Semantics

Reinforces

• Explicit Boundaries
• Integration Clarity

Enables

• Anti-Corruption Layer

Conflicts with

• Implicit Integration

In tension with

• Documentation Overhead

Tensions

• Context Mapping / Documentation Overhead

Violated by

• Implicit Integration

Severity

• recommended

Category

• Domain Architecture

Linked from

• A concern is a component
• Domain Architecture
• Domain Architecture
• Severity levels
• The resolutions